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c. 1380 BC
 
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The pharaoh Amenhotep III commissions the great temple to Amen-Re at Luxor        
Luxor, the Great Temple of Amun
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c. 1353 BC
 
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The Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV adopts a new deity, Aten, and changes his name to Akhenaten       
Sculptor's sketch for head of Akhenaten?, c.1350 BC
British Museum

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c. 1350 BC
 
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The pharaoh Akhenaten creates a new capital city on the Nile at Tell el Amarna       
c. 1345 BC
 
    
The Amarna letters, an invaluable collection of cuneiform tablets, are written at the court of the pharaoh Akhenaten       
c. 1345 BC
 
     
The Amarna tablets contain extensive correspondence between the Akhenaten government in Egypt and subject princes in Phoenicia        
c. 1340 BC
 
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One of the regular sitters to the court sculptor Thutmose is the pharaoh's wife, Nefertiti       
c. 1333 BC
 
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With the return to favour of the god Amen, the young Tutankhaten's name is changed to Tutankhamun      
Granite lion completed from Soleb in Nubia, c.1370 BC
British Museum

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c. 1324 BC
 
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The young Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, dies and is buried in a suitable tomb       
Tutankhamen's burial chamber
Cairo Museum

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1279 BC
 
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Ramses II, perhaps the greatest of Egypt's pharaohs, begins a reign of sixty-six years     
Granite portrait of Ramses II, c.1250 BC
British Museum

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c. 1275 BC
 
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An indecisve battle between the Hittites and the Egyptians, at Kadesh, stabilizes the frontier between the two empires